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...stood before the bench, fingering some notes that he had written on an envelope, still a tall, erect, impeccably tailored figure. But his face was gaunt, and the familiar baritone, once so sternly confident and self-righteous, was surprisingly soft. Last week Spiro Agnew appeared in a hushed and packed Annapolis, Md., courtroom to fight what one of his attorneys called "professional decapitation''-disbarment...
Such airs, though, are drunken sport for Sir Toby Belch and company as they plot to entangle the most self-righteous courtier ever created. "Dost thou think because thou art virtuous there shall be no more cakes and ale?" thunders Sir Toby to puritanical Malvolio, who, for his pains, ends up locked up and abused as a madman...
...drivers who exceed the new lower speed limits. On Interstate 75 near Atlanta last week, one car displayed a sign on its left-side door for every car passing him to see: "You too, 50 m.p.h." Jim Hunt, a filling-station operator in suburban Atlanta, has developed his own righteous way of rationing. He gives drivers of sub-compact cars all the gasoline they want, but limits larger autos to a dollar's worth. Says Hunt: "I give them just enough to get them off the road. Those big gas gulpers are the ones doing the damage...
Holy War. The very word jihad is ambiguous. In some parts of the Koran, it means any "struggle" or "striving" in the cause of Allah-such as leading a righteous life. But in other sections of the holy book, revealed to the Prophet after he and his followers had begun the successful conquest of their Arab neighbors, jihad takes on a military tone. Small wonder: Mohammed is said to have led 26 or 27 battles...
Verdoux's self-righteous stand at the close of Monsieur Verdoux is probably one reason the film was so ill-received when it first appeared in 1947. The public was already upset with Chaplin because he was involved in a paternity suit and because he was accused of being a Communist. Audiences simply would not countenance what seemed to them a false show of morality. Verdoux was given favorable notice by only a handful of critics, and in two years of circulation it reached only about one-sixth as many theaters as the average grade B movie...